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Climate Change Effects on Coffee
Coffee farming families under pressure! In November 2020, Central America suffered a horrific pummel when Hurricanes Eta and Iota struck the region within two weeks of each other. On top of the hardships triggered by COVID-19, the back-to-back hurricanes made...
Impacts Towards Climate Resilience from 2016 to 2020
coffee&climate (c&c) is a precompetitive initiative of leading coffee companies in partnership with the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida), currently in its third phase until June 2024. The initiative directly supports smallholder coffee farming...
Kitchen Thoughts on Gender Mainstreaming
Johannes Thoma (26), Executive Management Assistant at implementing partner Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung recently visited Tanzania to learn more about the gender component of c&c. “I have seen women walking 10 hours to get water! “, I grumbled as I lifted myself out...
Brewing up Climate Resilience in the Coffee Sector
Baristas, roasters and coffee machine producers are crowding around latest innovations during the Specialty Coffee Associations “World of Coffee 2019” in Berlin – Europe’s biggest Specialty Coffee Exhibition. Powerful cheering from the audiences of the World Barista...
From Italy to Guatemala, Lavazza visits Chiquimula
"I became more and more confident with myself and the role I have within the organization as a woman” tells Rina Mejia. Rina is the secretary of the gender committee for the Coffee Cooperative COCAFELOL in Ocotepeque, Honduras. As participant of the gender component...